In 2012, Mozilla developers explained why they chose not to include "Android" in their mobile UA string. <https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/User_Agent> Summary: Sites that mistakenly serve desktop-formatted pages are less likely to result in support calls, and are easier to address with evangelism, than sites that reasonably promote Android apps to a browser that claims to be running on Android. And that evangelizing sites to "Send your mobile version to any browser with 'Mobi' in its UA string" helps not just Firefox but every other mobile browser (for example, Ubuntu's).
If bug 1466427 has not been fixed by the time this bug is resolved, it may save time to fix them together. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 Title: User-Agent string results in poor UX on web Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the best web experience; an app which cannot be installed. This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone, which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being advertised are simply not installable. Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at all. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1328183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
